SINDHUPALCHOWK, July 13: The first climate conference venue, ‘Gufadanda,’ located at Ward 9 of Melamchi Municipality, remains ...

A disaster that wiped out a decades-long project to bring pipe-borne water to Nepal’s capital shows the mismatch between slow-moving donor-financed efforts and rapid global warming.

Kora Cycling Challenge, Nepal's largest charity cycling event, is returning for its 15th edition on July 19.

The landslide triggered by incessant rainfall last week has caused damage worth more than one billion rupees to the Melamchi Water Supply Project structures.

In Melamchi, for instance, heavy rain hampered helicopter rescue and reconnaissance flights, and cloud cover meant that satellite images were not immediately available. Immediately after hearing of ...

Melamchi had doubled that supply, but it still did not meet demand. Pumping groundwater has also lowered Kathmandu’s water table, and that supply is dwindling. Adapted from the Nepali original in the ...

Many killed in monsoon flash floods, landslides in Bhutan, Nepal The two Himalayan nations have been lashed by heavy rains in the last three days as the annual monsoon season begins.

Heavy monsoon rainfall, excessive snowmelt and unstable terrain combined to cause the 2021 Melamchi Valley flood disaster in Nepal, according to new research. The findings highlight how a mix of ...

At long last, the water from the Melamchi River in Sindhupalchowk arrived in Kathmandu on March 6. This has raised hopes that the long-awaited and long-delayed Melamchi Drinking Water Supply ...

Heavy monsoon rainfall, excessive snowmelt and unstable terrain combined to cause the 2021 Melamchi Valley flood disaster in Nepal, according to new USC Dornsife research. The findings highlight ...